Gabriela Matos is an Associate Professor (w/Agregação), who presently develops her scientific work at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL) in the areas of Portuguese Syntax and Comparative Syntax, mainly adopting the perspective of fundamental research, although often connected with experimental research, interdisciplanary developed, in the domain of Syntactic Processing and Language Acquisition. The comparative study of the distinguishing properties of standard varieties of Portuguese (e.g. European and Brazilian Portuguese) is a focus of her research. Assuming a descriptive and theoretical driven approach (within the framework of current Generative Grammar), the researcher has payed special attention to the following topics: (i) ellipsis -- VP ellipsis, TP ellipsis, Sluicing and Null Complement Anaphora; (ii) coordination; (iii) parenthetical clauses; (iv) clitic pronouns; (v) subject pronouns omission in coordinate vs. subordinate clauses; (vi) negation; (vii) canonical comparative sentences; (viii) improper indirect questions vs. proper indirect questions and relative clauses; (xix) hypotatic vs. paratatic sentences and the interface Syntax-Discourse. She presented the results of her investigation work on the above mentioned topics in conferences, symposiums, colloquiums and workshops and published them in books, book chapters and journal articles. She has also worked as a reviewer of papers for books and journals, and as member of scientific committees of conferences and journals. During her academic journey, she taught diverse undergraduate and post-graduate courses on Syntax . She supervised research programs of students, whose dissertations expanded the knowledge of Portuguese, but also the knowledge of the differences between Portuguese and other distinct languages, such as Cape-Verde creole, Bantu languages, or Chinese.